Saturday, September 06, 2003

Huffing Tiger because of your comment. I like it when I get lots of oXygen.

Posted at 10:27 PM by Laura W. Petix.

I was just reading some blogs and blog comments written by people who hate summer and are delightedly welcoming fall. I truthfully had never even imagined that it was possible not to like summer. My mind is blown.

Listening to Live 1975 and I love the way it trembles in my hand.

Posted at 3:22 AM by Laura W. Petix.

Friday, September 05, 2003

This is the nicest day of the summer! (Weather-wise, I mean.)

Posted at 3:07 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Thursday, September 04, 2003

I managed to cram all my crayons!

Posted at 11:18 PM by Laura W. Petix.

They had travel Vicks at Super Foodmart. Travel Vicks. Of course I bought it. It comes in a little round tin, a lot like Tiger, except with a larger circumference. Blue tin and cherry red tin. Numb lips. I'm just going to sit around inhaling them all night. Camphor and menthol and eucalyptus. Menthol comes from peppermint oil. The other two are beautiful trees. [Edit: This picture looks just like that cool H.O.V.E. tree! The H.O.V.E. tree is a type of eucalyptus!]

Posted at 8:36 PM by Laura W. Petix.

!!!!!! JELLYFISH STICKERS!!

Posted at 4:12 PM by Laura W. Petix.

"Don't know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you
It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow..."

They have Pumpkin Injunctions already, at Shrunkin'. I didn't try one, though. I thought the Pumpkin Injunction was supposed to apply to October...

Gas is 2.04 in Kensington (I wrote it on my hand so I'd remember). That means Kensington is the most expensive town around (ha!), because it was 2.02 near Oats, and less than $2. (1.98, I think) in Cromwell, where I actually bought some yesterday. (I just went to the cheapest place by chance. Maybe it's one of those special Laura Luck things, like getting good tables at restaurants.) Drizzly dark Thursday. Lovely Thursday.

Posted at 2:26 PM by Laura W. Petix.

Listening to The Hawks over and over and over. So so great. The part where they dedicate "A Sweeter Girl Than You Has Never Been Born" to "John" cracks me up every time, though.

One of the books I got from the library sale shelf this time is The World We Live in, Volume 1 (the first four billion years). Love that title. Another fantastic '60s book, full of amazing illustrations. Cycads! Lots of them. And all kinds of crazy things. Ancestral echinoderms. "The Seas Grow Crowded." Fantastical trees that look like giant asparagus. Squid, squidding along, sending out clouds of ink, underneath Loch Ness Monsters. Deep sea creatures, looking like a Bosch nightmare, illustrating the how the depths of the sea were formed. There's something about these books. The style of the drawings, the colours, the texture of the paper. I love the smell of Tiger Balm.

Posted at 2:38 AM by Laura W. Petix.

Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Aaagh. This guy at the library snagged Dangerous Sea Creatures off the sale shelf one microsecond before I did. What a massive tongue massage. I hung around forever waiting to see if he was really going to buy it and he kept looking and looking and looking at things while my brain slowly imploded. After I'd scanned over every book about two thousand times I finally gave up and checked my stuff out. I went back after Klekolo to see if he'd put it back, but it wasn't there. Did get a few other cool rejects, though. I wanted that book! It had jellyfish. Among other things.

Ran into every red light today, but I liked it. Listening to WW! "Standing In the Doorway" sounded unbelievably incredible. They should make paper with a surface texture exactly like this magazine. It's fantastic for writing on. (Had to take notes on the back page because my Chinese Notebook's all full.)

Posted at 5:45 PM by Laura W. Petix.

I need a Chinese Notebook replacement. There's barely one square inch of blank space left to write on. But I don't want a new one. I like that one.

Posted at 1:24 AM by Laura W. Petix.

Tuesday, September 02, 2003

[Chinese Notebook, 2:36 PM:] It's really fall. The trees don't know it yet, but the air does. SOAR on my CD player, exceptional tall vanilla dry cappuccino from the Oats Starbucks. I need the warmth. This is the best foam I've had in a long time. Wonderful consistency, fluffy, delicious. There's a door shut on summer, and it seemed like it never really started. Temperature dial on the Beag just past noon: 12:32.

Posted at 2:36 PM by Laura W. Petix.

I hate being cold.

Posted at 2:33 AM by Laura W. Petix.

The easiest way you can tell it's Officially Autumn is the feeling in the air when you wake up. There's just this chill, even if the day ends up being warm. Nippy. But, my kitchen counter is covered in tomatoes!

Anyway, I can completely see why Martin Scorsese and Robbie are pals. They're perfect for each other.

Posted at 12:36 AM by Laura W. Petix.

Monday, September 01, 2003

Wow, my new double-sharpener works on my miniature Guggenheim pencils, too!

Posted at 1:13 AM by Laura W. Petix.

Sunday, August 31, 2003

5th Voyage of the BWP Dragonfly

Crew: L&D W.P. and Cronenbug / Conditions: Nice!!
Frog Tallywag: IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIII [actual tally has crossways lines] = 74 Frogs!!!

#1 = medium-small green bullfrog that lives at launch spot (nice legs)
#2-4 = cute little pickerels!
#23 = pastel with bony back and really nice mouth
#28 = another nice pastel
#30 = small solid copper
#41 = really nice!
#45 = copper
#47 = really dark with copper ear and green face

Also: harvested some pears -- picking, climbing & shaking (clonked head); heard pickerel vocalizing!; turtle head; woodpecker; mysterious animal in woods (Moa!).

"Never Say Goodbye," driving home, was beyond words. The combination of everything. Especially Richard.

Posted at 11:39 PM by Laura W. Petix.